Periodical Research Topics to Consider

1.) What are other social classes/ groups reading?
2.) How were diversions and entertainment presented in print media?
           a.) What kinds of entertainments presented?
           b.) Which entertainments were vilified?
           c.) Where in the periodical did the articles/images about entertainment appear?
3.) How real is the representation of Coketown's factory town?
4.) What kinds of campaigns were being waged?
5.) How is domesticity constructed?
           a.) What topics are discussed/presented?
6.) Are there conflicted attitudes towards modernity and progress?
           a.) Nostalgia for the pastoral or agrarian
           b.) Celebration of symbols of modernity/anti-modernity
7.) How do the British represent the French?  What is the discourse about British/French unions?
8.) What is the discourse around marriage and divorce?
9.) What is the discourse around vice?
10.) What is the discourse around the Corn Laws and Poor Laws?
11.) How does education look through the lens of the Victorian periodical? 
           a.) Who should be educated?
           b.) What should be taught?
           c.) What is their concept of the child?
           d.) What is the discourse around education (the who and how)?